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1999 Session

Budget Amendments - SB800 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Stolle
Virginia Beach Drug Court

Item 453 #3s

Item 453 #3s

First Year - FY1999 Second Year - FY2000
Public Safety
Criminal Justice Services, Department of FY1999 $250,000 FY2000 $0 GF

Language
Page 344, line 29, strike "$24,756,856" and insert "$25,006,856".
Page 345, after line 10, insert:
"C.  The amounts for Financial Assistance to Localities for Intensified Drug Enforcement Services include $250,000 general fund in the first year to establish a demonstration Drug Court Program in the Virginia Beach General District Court."


Explanation
(This amendment provides $250,000 the first year from the general fund to develop a pilot drug court in a General District Court. While there are Drug Court Programs operating in several Circuit Courts, there are no similar programs operating in General District Courts in the Commonwealth. This amendment will establish a demonstration Drug Court Program in the Virginia Beach General District Court to provide judicially supervised intensive substance abuse treatment to misdemeanants.)